By Tom Garba,Yola
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has affirmed that the 275 women and children were taken rescued from Sambisa forest have been moved to an unknown destination by the Nigerian military
The spokesman of the Agency in Adamawa, Mallam Sani Datti, who intimated our correspondent on the latest development said the women and children were evacuated by the military from Malkohi camp in Yola to a destination which he refused to disclose, saying it’s purely a military affair.
Another reliable source who pleaded anonymity when contacted by a telephone told newsmen in Yola that the affected women ,girls and children were evacuated on the orders of the office of the National Security Adviser to unknown destination for psycotraumatic therapy.
The source said that the IDPs were taken in buses by the military to Yola Airport where the boarded a military plane to unknown destination.
” They did not tell us where they are taking them to saying it is purely a military affair”, the source said.
Effort to get the military to comment on the matter proved abortive as calls made to the 23rd Amour Brigade Yola Public Relations Officer, Capt Nuhu Jaafar, to speak on the development did no go through.
It can be recalled that the 275 women and children who were rescued from the dreaded boko haram bounds in sambisa forest by the military were brought to Malkohi camp in Yola on May 2nd 2015.
